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DDoS attacks continue to grow ever bigger, with Cloudflare recently blocking the largest ever recorded at 37.5 TB over 45 seconds
By Nick Evanson published
News That's a little over 260 copies of Baldur's Gate 3 in less than a minute.

No, 16 billion passwords didn't just get exposed in a mega-hack, but you should get with the program and stop reusing passwords anyways
By Jacob Ridley published
News This supposed breach might not be what it seems but don't let that deter you from getting yourself a password manager and turning on 2FA.

Fake Minecraft mods that steal all your personal data including crypto wallets are being distributed via GitHub accounts
By Jeremy Laird published
News Be very careful of your mods and tools.

'225,000,000,000 attacks per day': Computer users and gamers are significantly more at risk of cybercrime than at any other time in the past
By Nick Evanson published
Cyber risk Fortunately, gaming companies and you, the humble PC gamer, can do plenty to help.

Here's how long it would take 12 RTX 5090 GPUs to crack your password… and a reminder that just adding more characters still works
By Jacob Fox last updated
News Try to go for 18 characters or more.

The FBI says cybercriminals were responsible for a record $16,600,000,000 in reported losses last year, up 33% from 2023
By Andy Edser published
News That's a whole lot of ill-gotten gains.

US Justice Dept announces $10 million bounty on at-large 'hacker-for-hire' cabal it says targeted China critics, religious missionaries, and the Treasury
By Joshua Wolens published
News 12 alleged hackers are accused of targeting US organisations in a campaign dating back to 2013.

Have I Been Pwned adds over 284 million compromised passwords from latest breach
By Jody Macgregor published
News Time to move on from "PCGamer456" I guess.
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